Enhancing Zipkin Tracing with Application Awareness

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Although the Envoy proxies send trace spans to Zipkin out-of-the-box, to leverage its full potential, applications need to be Zipkin aware and forward some headers to tie the individual spans together. See [zipkin-tracing](https://istio.io/docs/tasks/zipkin-tracing.html) for details.

Title: Enhancing Zipkin Tracing with Application Awareness

Summary

While Istio's Envoy proxies automatically send trace spans to Zipkin, achieving its full potential requires applications to be Zipkin-aware. This involves forwarding specific headers to link individual spans together. Refer to the documentation for detailed instructions on implementing Zipkin tracing effectively.